incredulous

形容词 adj.
/ɪnˈkɹɛdjʊləs/    /ˌɪnˈkɹɛ.d͡ʒə.ləs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
    — Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
  2. Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
    — Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
  3. Difficult to believe; incredible. nonstandard
    — Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance […].

词形变化

more incredulous comparative most incredulous superlative

词源

Borrowed from Latin incrēdulus (“unbelieving”).
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